The Salt-Black Tree
Book Two of the Dead God's Heart Duology
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- £9.99
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Publisher Description
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What happens when you find a way to save your loved one… but the price might not be worth it—the stunning conclusion to New York Times bestseller Lilith Saintcrow’s The Dead God’s Heart
Nat Drozdova has crossed half the continent in search of the stolen Dead God’s Heart, the only thing powerful enough to trade for her beautiful, voracious, dying mother’s life. Yet now she knows the secret of her own birth—and that she’s been lied to all her young life.
The road to the Heart ends at the Salt-Black Tree, but to find it Nat must pay a deadly price. Pursued by mouthless shadows hungry for the blood of new divinity as well as the razor-wielding god of thieves, Nat is on her own. Her journey leads through a wilderness of gods old and new, across a country as restless as its mortal inhabitants, and it’s too late to back out now.
Blood may not always prevail. Magic might not always work. And the young Drozdova is faced with an impossible choice: Save her mother’s very existence…
…or accept the consequences of her own.
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Customer Reviews
Four and a half
Four and a half
Nat Drozdova is the new personification of Spring although if her mother has anything to do with it that's about to change but then again isn't that what seasons are meant to do ? All Nat knows is she is desperately trying to find the missing arcana item's that will lead her to the heart her mother stole. Her journey so far has introduced her to a world of hurt and fear but also wonderment and possibly allies but who knows what lurks in the darkness where the sun doesn't shine ?
This started exactly as the first book ended so a very easy way to immerse the reader in this folklore guided world set in a very modern America. I loved the ideas in place here with embodiments of just about everything I could imagine from Law enforcement to Seasons, even Shadows and Thievery. We get a lot more of Baba Yaga but as Nat grows up and truly finds herself for me it was Dima who made me smile. A fitting ending to this duology but I really hope the author revisits this world because it was truly a fun ride and yes I'm looking at you Baby !
This voluntary take is of a copy I requested from Netgalley and my thoughts and comments are honest and I believe fair